San José: The head of a technology personnel with headquarters in San José was sentenced Monday to a year and two months in federal prison for visa fraud, prosecutors said.
Kishore Dattapuram, 55, or Santa Clara, was accused in February 2019 for a conspiracy charge to commit visa fraud and 10 positions of substantive visa fraud, according to the office of the United States prosecutor. Datapuram declared himself guilty of all charges in November.
Datapuram co -owned and operated nanosemantics Inc., a personnel firm that causes qualified employees for technology companies in the Bay area, prosecutors said.
Nanosemantics, who recovered a commission for employees placed in customer companies, regular customers submitted H1-B applications so that forins could obtain temporary authorization to live and work for employers in the United States.
Prosecutors said Dattapuram worked with two coacked to submit H1-B applications that falsely affirmed that foreign workers had specific jobs that were waiting for them in the designated companies.
On multiple occasions, Dattapuram paid companies that appear as end customers for foreign workers, only although I knew they would never work for those companies.
Datapuram and his coacked admitted that the objective of the scheme was to allow nanosemantics to obtain visas for work candidates before ensuring jobs. This allowed the company to place workers with employers as soon as the works were noticeable, instead of waiting for the visa application process to end, prosecutors said.
The company, as a result, had an unfair advantage over its competitors, prosecutors said.
In addition to the 14 -month prison mandate, a judge ordered Dattapuram to serve years of supervised release, fixed 125,457 and paid a fine of $ 7,500, prosecutors said.
